The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-12
Miscellaneous Notes.

1.-TWO hundred and fifty passenger trains daily
come into and go out of the depots of ST. Paul.
and Minneapolis doubtless has as many.
A railroad from Gainesville. Ala. to Meridian.
Miss. will be put under way at an early date Ii
is to be called the Warrior Coal-felds railroad.
The Illinois Central and the Chicago. Burling
ton 81 Northern railroads are having conflict
over special rates between Chicago and Dubuque.
Albert l.. MURDOCH of the Murdoch Liquid
Food Company, generously offers $500 to the
first inventor who will devise safe method for
heating railroad cars that shall be accepted by a
railroad company.
The Burlington & Northern is reported to be
carrying grain from Minneapolis to Chicago at a
7a-cent rate and taking nearly all the business
The light grade on the Burlington 81 Northern
enables one engine to do almost twice the work
possible on competing roads.
Track-laying has been begun on the north
western extension of the San Antonio & Aran-
sas Pass railway. Contracts have been let to
reach Boerne in thirty days. and it is expected
that trains will be running to Kerrvlle eighty
miles northwest of San Antonio, by Sept. l.
resident of Kidder county, D. T., went into
mer, forty miles ahead of new railroad, and
cut 100000 tons OF hay. The railroad crawIed
up to his stacks during the fall. and he is now
selling his hay for So a ton. He expects to
make over 800 900 by his enterprise.
Every true ST. Paulte and Minneapolitan."
tans that the day is not far distant when Chi
cago will be a mere half way hash station on the
great six-track trunk line roads between New
York and the mighty inland metropolis that is
clustering. as if by magic, about ST. Anthony
and Minnehaha."
Baltimore & Ohio engineers are surveying for
a new line from Little Hooking. a point on the
Cincinnati. Washington & Baltimore, about
twelve miles down the river. The purpose is to
reach the Jackson county coal fields and form a
competing line along the Ohio river to the Ohio
River railroad, now built to Point Pleasant, and
belonging to the Pennsylvania Central.
recent engineering invention consists of
reversible rotatve fire hox-that is, a spherical
chamber or box provided with perforated covers
and by rocking this fire box to and fro by
means of crank ashes and clinkers may be
easily removed; the apertures in the covers may
be so small that very little coal can escape with
the ashes, and the Objectionable process of
dumping is thus entirely avoided.
An engine belonging to the Atchison, Topeka
e Santa Fe railroad has just been resurrected,
after having been buried nearly two years, near
Randall Station near the Rio Grande river. At
that time the engine ran into a wash ont and
soon disappeared in the wet sand, and baff1ed all
efforts of the company to find her until short
time ago. In the meantime, the river bed
changed, and the track was moved from the en-
croaching stream and the engine now stands on
the other side of the river.
The East Tennessee. Virginia & Georgia
Railroad Company has abandoned the Shenan-
doah Valley route; consequently arrangements
have been effected with the Norfolk e Western
and the Virginia Midland to hereafter run their
trains over those lines by the way Of Lynchburg
and Washington The Shenandoah Valley rail
roah did not make satisfactory connections, and
has been the cause Of nearly all the DELAYED
trains since the franchise was taken. The East
Tennessee folks now expect to make better time;
sleepers for Washington and New York will be
run under the new change direct to New York
and Washington.